David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies at the Hong Kong Baptist University

The David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies (LEWI) at Hong Kong Baptist University is an international consortium of 28 well-known universities from Australia, China, North America, the Philippines, the United Kingdom, Europe, and South Korea.LEWI aims at promoting better understanding between East and West. Recognising the role of Hong Kong as one of the major financial and trade centres of the world, and believing that the territory will continue to be the window to the Chinese mainland as well as China's window to the West, LEWI networks not only countries within the Pacific Rim region, but also societies in the West, thereby enabling communication across the continents.

LEWI's current Director is Professor Tsoi Ah Chung, who is also the head of the Sociology Department at HKBU. The Associate Director is Ms. Emlie Yueh-yu Yeh.

In January 2001, the DAAD was invited to set up an office at the David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies (LEWI) of HKBU.

Signing ceremony on 6 MARCH 2001
LEFT: Prof. Dr. Gisela Rauschhofer, member of the DAAD-Council
RIGHT: Prof. Dr. Herbert Tsang, then Director of LEWi, now Academic Vice President of HKBU.

 

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